Darwinism Comes to America

Ronald L. Numbers

  • Winner of the 1999 Templeton Foundation Prize for Outstanding Book in Theology and the Natural Sciences

Introduction: Darwinism, Creationism, and Intelligent Design

1. Darwinism and the Dogma of Separate Creations:
The Responses of American Naturalists to Evolution

2. Creating Creationism:
Meaning and Used since the Age of Agassiz

3. Darwinism in the American South:
From the Early 1860s to the Late 1920s

4. The Scopes Trial: History and Legend

5. "Sciences of Satanic Origin":
Adventist Attitudes toward Evolutionary Biology and Geology

6. Creation, Evolution, and Holy Ghost Religion:
Holiness and Evolutionary Biology and Geology

Appendix: Naturalists in the National Academy of Sciences, 1863-1900

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

  • Cover: Darwinism Comes to America

Ronald L. Numbers is Hilldale Professor of the History of Science and Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has served as president of both the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History and is currently president of the International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science, Division of the History of Science and Technology.